{"author_link":"\/author\/vargonian\/","author_name":"vargonian","author_uid":"7872","comments":[{"author_name":"evilseanbot","author_uid":"7902","time":"Dec 23, 2011 @ 8:17am","epoch":1324627920,"text":"There's a bit of a control problem in that &quot;A&quot; also rotates the ship (Along with D). It also might have been nice if you avoided invisible walls and used the original solar jetman's mountain barriers. Otherwise, fun game, and I liked the particle effects."},{"author_name":"vargonian","author_uid":"7872","time":"Dec 24, 2011 @ 12:46pm","epoch":1324730460,"text":"Ah, nice catch!  I didn't even notice that A rotated the ship; I changed the control scheme at the last minute from Left-Alt to rotate to 'A' because I thought it was more typical.  And yeah, the invisible walls made me sad; I purposely made the terrain bumpy near the left\/right ones so that you could easily tell that you weren't moving.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>If I hadn't slacked so much, I'd have a starfield background to give a better feeling of movement\/desolation as well as adding those mountain barriers.\r<br\/>\r<br\/>Glad to see someone who knows what Solar Jetman is. :)  That's rare--no pun intended."},{"author_name":"wally2069","author_uid":"5461","time":"Dec 25, 2011 @ 1:24am","epoch":1324775940,"text":"The collision was kinda buggy and dragging objects had weird issues."},{"author_name":"MurrayL","author_uid":"7835","time":"Dec 26, 2011 @ 10:36pm","epoch":1324938660,"text":"I liked the feel of gunning about in the ship, and the graphics were quite nice in their way. I think the most obvious omission is any kind of threat to the player; even flying into walls at top speed has no punishment.\r<br\/>Overall, I would love to see a version of this that takes the concept further and challenges the player more."},{"author_name":"SparkCloud","author_uid":"8796","time":"Dec 26, 2011 @ 10:39pm","epoch":1324938840,"text":"It was pretty fun. I did feel alone out there..."},{"author_name":"scriptblocks","author_uid":"5426","time":"Jan 7, 2012 @ 4:17am","epoch":1325909520,"text":"cant play on ubuntu"}],"images":["ld22\/7872-d02832e1b75001b21dca1fe41d48ae18.jpg"],"links":[{"url":"http:\/\/funcode.net\/WebPlayer\/WebPlayer.html","text":"Web"},{"url":"http:\/\/funcode.net\/WebPlayer\/UnityProject.zip","text":"Source"}],"metadata":{"g_key":"31549","g_author":"7872","g_event":"LD22","g_eventkey":"8","g_subevent":"COMPO","g_urlkey":"31579","g_title":"Loner Jetman","g_status":"UCHK1","g_place":"273","g_commentcount":"6","g_site2_node_id":"0","g_hide":"N","g_has_icon":"Y","g_rqueue":"0","g_random":"0"},"nds":[],"node":null,"orig_images":["http:\/\/ludumdare.com\/compo\/wp-content\/compo2\/\/87574\/7872-shot0.png-eq-900-500.jpg"],"text":"Left\/Right arrow keys to turn left\/right.\r\nUp arrow to thrust forward.\r\n'A' to activate\/deactivate tow cable.\r\nTow items (little gray objects) into your base's blue collector field and they'll drop into your base and power-up your ship.<\/p>","title":"Loner Jetman"}